Louisville is home to the global headquarters for GE Appliances and has been for the past 70 years.

General Electric sold off its appliance division to Chinese manufacturing company Haier in 2016.

Today, GE Appliance Park in southern Jefferson County employs more than 7000 people and its labs and manufacturing facilities.

Our Kelsie Stark sat down with D Appliances CEO Kevin Nolan to talk about the impact of Appliance Park in Louisville.

I think a lot of people don't realize Appliance Park itself is, you know, has its own movie theater, its own zip code.

It's a little city in and of itself, and it was created to be that way, right?

Yeah, It's a unique space.

Space.

And it was very again, like I said before, forward thinking it has its own zip code.

There's rumor that maybe you could research that.

That's why the Eastern Time Zone got moved over here in Louisville, because the headquarters were in Connecticut at the time and wanted to be on the same time zone.

If you look at a lot of the road system in Louisville, a lot of it was based upon making good access here.

Neighborhoods were built around it.

So I think it really transformed a lot of the city of this big industrial park that hadn't really been done in America before, GE Appliances.

And so how has it remained in Louisville?

Continued to be vibrant when so many others have not?

I think it's something special about the people here, about the community, you know, and having everything together.

So everybody's always fighting for making sure that this city stays vibrant.

Do we do we keep it energized?

Do we keep being on the leading edge of manufacturing, of design, of innovation?

So there's a big responsibility because we know the impact it makes to Louisville and it makes the communities around.

And everybody here, I think, feels that responsibility.

You can see the full interview and learn more about the history of GE Appliance Park on inside Louisville this Sunday at 12 noon Eastern, 11 a.m. Central right here on KCET.